AFoCR Leading Project to Reconconstruct Wilson Monument in Prague.
Copies of English language edition of "Nicholas Winton's Lottery of Life" now available.
Peter Bisek
AFoCR Director Peter Bisek was born in 1941 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Since 1965, he has lived in the United States and currently resides in Long Island, New York with his wife, Vera. His daughter, Veronica, is a project finance lawyer with the law firm Skadden, Arps, in New York. His son, Jonathan, is a General Manager of the Czech branch of MOL Logistics (Japan) in Pilsen, Czech Republic.
Mr. Bisek is the owner [a co-owner with his wife] of Typrints Company in Glen Cove, NY and the Editor-in-Chief of the Czech & Slovak-American bi-weekly, Americké Listy which he publishes with his wife.
In 1997, Mr. Bisek received the Medal of Merit First Class from then-President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Havel. In 2005, both Mr. and Mrs. Bisek received the Gratias Agit award for "spreading the good word about the Czech Republic abroad" from the Czech Secretary of State.
Mr. Bisek is also President of the Bohemian Citizens’ Benevolent Society of Astoria, Inc. which owns the Bohemian Hall & Garden in Astoria, New York.
Mr. Bisek is a certified rowing coach and a master rower-competitor.
